It’s not everyday you get to spend the morning with a viable pop darling (then again I don’t have the everyday job, now do I?). I recently hopped on the red-eye to San Francisco to meet up with Ke$ha to get the full scoop on the new Baby-G watches she designed. I have to say that in a world full of celebrity perfumes and clothing lines from everyone from that Latin lady on Modern Family to whatever Diddy is doing this week, designing a watch seems to be a pretty original move for this songstress.

As an ambassador for the popular Casio ’Baby-G’ brand, the chanteuse thought it was about "time" to combine her signature style with the affordable timepieces. "Casio came to me to design some watches and I wrote ’Tik Tok’ on a Casio keyboard...so it seemed like a natural fit," said the pop star on the collaboration which includes two contrasting watches---a red, white and blue design that represents her American roots and freedom of speech (not to mention perfectly matched her Captain America meets Vegas ensemble she met me in) and a square black and gold leopard print model to reflect her "animal instincts."

And maybe it was our joint animal instinct that broke the ice in the below video interview. Although we never met, you’ll see that Ke$ha and I seem like old friends who are just nonchalantly hanging out (or maybe it’s just that I feel more comfortable with girls that have broken crystal glued to their face!).

Later that night I was lucky enough to catch Ke$ha’s rollicking and infectious live show. I seemed to be the odd man out standing in a sea of pant-less and painted-up Ke$h-heads. Thank goodness I had my limited edition Ke$ha-designed Baby-G watch and a very cute iPhone photo of us from earlier to give me some cred with her loyal cult-following.

For more info on the watches and where to get your own check out: www.baby-g.com